Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

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September 28, 2022 "War Correspondent" Misha Zelinsky
Misha is a former trade union boss who now reports from Ukraine for the Australian Financial Review.
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1 hr 4 min
September 21, 2022 "When Whitefellas Talk With Blackfellas" with Tyson Yunkaporta
Tyson is a researcher, writer, and traditional wood carver. He works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and is the founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab at Deakin University. His podcast, "The Other Others", discusses how Indigenous knowledge can solve the world’s problems -- which is also the topic of his book, Sand Talk. He and Josh debate the far right, the woke left, structural racism, acknowledgments-of-country, and conspiracy thinking in Aboriginal communities.
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1 hr 32 min
September 13, 2022 "Are Aussies Sexist?" with Sarah Wilson
What's wrong with Australian men? What expectations do single, middle-aged women face? What happened to the Left? Sarah Wilson is a global phenomenon -- an activist, journalist, speaker, writer, podcaster and host. She joins Josh on this special crossover episode to wrestle with the biggest questions in our lives.

Notes
Sarah mentions the following study during the show. Details here:

A 2019 Harvard University study that looked at global economies and innovation found that Australia, paradoxically, was both one of the richest nations and the least innovative . . . and that the former led to the latter. Follow the links for more details.
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/australia-is-rich-dumb-and-getting-dumber-20191007-p52y8i

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1 hr 6 min
September 07, 2022 "What Is Gender?" with Courtney Act (aka Shane Jenek)
What is a man? What is a woman? What is transgenderism? What is drag? When are we acting out gender stereotypes, and when are we just being ourselves? Shane is the man behind Australia’s most popular drag queen, Courtney Act. Josh and Shane debate gender, sex, and the imminent death of heterosexuality (maybe).
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1 hr 25 min
August 31, 2022 "The Scott Morrison Fiasco" with Peter van Onselen
During the pandemic, did the Australian prime minister subvert democracy? One of Australia’s leading political commentators takes Josh deep into the bizarro world of Morrison’s multiple ministries.
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1 hr 20 min
August 24, 2022 "Would 'The Satanic Verses' Be Published Today?" with Sami Shah
As Salman Rushdie recuperates, Josh debates Islamophobia, blasphemy and cancel culture with the Pakistani-Australian writer and comic Sami Shah.
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1 hr 42 min
August 17, 2022 "Why We Keep Secrets" with Michael Slepian
Michael Slepian is an Author and Associate Professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia University. His new book is called The Secret Life Of Secrets - How Our Inner Worlds Shape Well-being, Relationships, and Who We Are.

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59 min
August 10, 2022 "How To Be Happy" with Pandit The Monk
Pandit Dasa was a monk for more than 15 years. Now he's ditched the robes and helps people ease their way into more thoughtful, generous, fulfilling mental states. Josh wants to know whether that's an invaluable contribution to modern life... or a spiritual cop out. Pandit's book is Closing The Apps: How to be Mindful at Work and at Home.
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1 hr 13 min
August 03, 2022 "What IS 'Diversity'?" with Antoinette Lattouf
Antoinette Lattouf is a journalist, author and diversity advocate. She co-founded Media Diversity Australia. Her new book is How To Lose Friends and Influence White People.
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1 hr 11 min
July 27, 2022 "America's Next Civil War" with Stephen Marche
Stephen Marche is a Canadian author and political commentator. He writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic and Esquire among others. His new book The Next Civil War is a bracing look at what Stephen believes is a likely culmination of US division.
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1 hr 20 min

About Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

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The world has never been more connected. Yet never more divided. We yell at each other from inside our echo chambers. But change doesn’t happen inside an echo chamber. It’s time to get out, to stretch our legs, to step on some land mines. It's time to have an uncomfortable conversation with Josh Szeps.